"Beware, I live!" If you were a frequent visitor to an arcade in the early 80s, you probably know what game that line is from: Sinistar. Those words and that evil sounding voice have been etched into ...

Listen! Sinistar is talking to you from the ravaged wilds of gaming's distant past, and what it's saying is worth hearing. It's saying that games used to be so mysterious, so malevolent, so ...

Classic arcade games didn’t really have music. Unless it merited a spot on Buckner & Garcia’s Pac-Man Fever, the best a machine before the videogame crash of 1983 could hope for was two or three ...

Let's see... Joust. Bubbles. Robotron 2084. Sinistar. Defender. Defender II. I believe I've heard of Joust, Defender, and Robotron, but what in the world is this ...

While today’s gamers typically play on PC or consoles, the industry thrived in arcades. And in the 1980s, arcades were built on competition, noise, and frustration. The reason for this was that many ...

The goal of the old arcade game Sinistar is twofold - first of all you, as a space fighter pilot, have to destroy other alien space fighters and planetoids in order to gather homing missiles depicted ...

Two-years in the making, SynaMax takes viewers on a journey into the extensive cyber-archaeology research involved with restoring the source code and documenting the development history to the 1983 ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Remember Williams’ old arcade classic, Sinistar? You might not, ...

Well, Midway’s finally gone and done it. This collection of classic arcade games has finally made it to just about every viable platform out there – the PC, the PlayStation, heck, even the Game Boy ...